Only here in the New Testament. Rev., better, discernment: sensitive moral perception. Used of the senses, as Xenophon: “perception of things sweet or pungent” (“Memorabilia,” i., 4, 5). Of hearing: “It is possible to go so far away as not to afford a hearing” (“Anabasis,” iv., 6, 13). The senses are called αἰσθήσεις. See Plato, “Theaetetus,” 156. Plato uses it of visions of the gods (“Phaedo,” 111). Compare αἰσθητήρια senses, Heb 5:14. Discernment selects, classifies, and applies what is furnished by knowledge.